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Friday, December 2, 2011 . 8PMSaturday, December 3, 2011 . 2PM & 8PM

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CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER& UMD SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

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Director Alvin MayesChoreographers Graham Brown

David DorfmanAdriane FangAlvin MayesTere O’ConnorSara PearsonPatrik Widrig

Costume Designers Kelsey HuntTzveta KassabovaCollin Ranney

Lighting Designer Paul D. JacksonScenic Designer JD Madsen

Friday Morning Music Club125th Anniversary Events

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Calvary Baptist ChurchA choral festival of sacred music in honor of the 125th anniversary of the FMMC and the 150th

of the Calvary Baptist Church will be presented by FMMC Collegium Musicum and musicians, Calvary Chamber Singers and high school students from the Metropolitan Area.

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Dumbarton HouseA reception and concert will commemorate the day in 1886 when three women met in

Georgetown to start an informal club for the study of music, instrumental and vocal.

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Terrace Theater, Kennedy CenterAvanti Orchestral Concert featuring the WIC Winner For Piano.

9:30pm Reception at Rivers at Watergate

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The Dacha at the Hillwood EstateConcert To Celebrate the FMMC 125th Anniversary and Birthday of Marjorie Merriweather Post.

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Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert HallA reception and Opera Gala will be presented by the Avanti Orchestra, the FMMC Chorale and

past winners of the WIC to conclude the FMMC’s 125th anniversary festivities.

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Interlude“Let Us Rise in Love,” Ysaye Maria BarnwellSung by Not What You Think

I Wake Up Dreaming*“I woke up this morning in restful peaceFor I am not my body” — Marilyn NelsonChoreographer: Alvin MayesCostume Designer: Collin RanneyMusic: “Breaths,” “Wanting Memories” and “Don’t Let Go” Ysaye Maria BarnwellMusicians: Not What You Think**Performers: Nava Behnam, Melanie Clement, Tiana Joseé Fernandez, KatharineGundlach, Gabriella Meiterman-Rodriguez, Sydney Pearson, Candace Scarborough,Morgan JL Wallace, Georgia Yang; Understudies: Ebony McSwain and Alana Shapiro

*I Wake Up Dreaming was created as a response to Fortune’s Bones by poet MarilynNelson and is a part of the Fortune’s Bones Project. The Fortune’s Bones Project ischampioned by Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell.

**Not What You Think is a Washington DC-based a cappella ensemble singing songsof social justice and humor. From Not What You Think website: “… We have anopportunity and responsibility to effect change and to open hearts and minds”

INTERMISSION - MOVEMENT POETRY PROJECT, PART IIOCCURRING IN THE GRAND PAVILION

PROGRAM

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PROGRAM

GATHER/DANCE: FALL 2011MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE

You (Excerpt)Choreographer: Graham BrownMusic: “Doom,” “Thom Yorke,” “Radiohead”Costume Designer: Kelsey HuntPerformers: Nava Behnam, Raha Behnam, Roberta Capobianco, Erin Crawley-Woods, Adrian Galvin, Jessica Quigley, Candace Scarborough, Connor Voss,Rachel Jordan Wolfe

Depth of PerceptionChoreographer: David DorfmanCostume Designer: Kelsey HuntSound: Chris PeckOriginal lighting designer: Catherine EliotPerformers: Sharon Mansur and Boris Willis

This duet, which premiered in 2004, emerged from a process of discussion, writingsand movement generation concerning public and private aspects of race, ethnicity,gender and sexuality. The original creation of Depth of Perception was funded, in part,by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and George Mason University, and will beperformed by undergraduate dance students during Spring MDE, 2012.

Movement Poetry Project, Part IChoreographer: Adriane FangCollaborators: Claudia Rosales and Armando BatistaCostume Designer: Kelsey HuntPerformers: Allison Bobby, Ellen Clark, Unissa Cruse-Ferguson, Melanie Francer,Madeline Fuller, Jessica Hughes, Diana Lopez, Anna Lynch, Sadie Leigh Rothman,Erin Rusonis, Tanya Stephens

The lexicon for Movement Poetry Project was created by the performers with inputfrom many sources. Special thanks to Kelsey Hunt, JD Madsen and Erin Glasspatrick.

PRODUCTION AND STAGE MANAGEMENTDance Production Coordinator Erin GlasspatrickStage Manager Will VoorhiesAssistant Stage Managers Kayla Wright and Andrew Brown

COSTUMESCostume Shop Manager Susan ChiangDrapers Lisa Burgess, Emily Hoem,

Veronica StevensStitchers (Undergraduate) Lindsay Lam, Benjamin Walker,

Shelby LaVigna, Carmen Connor,Yedeedya Mellman, Students ofTHET 479, Students of THET 284

Dressers Thomas Beheler, Emma Hébert,Yedeedya Mellman

ELECTRICSAssistant Manager of Electrics Laura MacAdamElectrics Coordinator Jeff ReckewegMaster Electrician Robert DentonVideo Coordinator Cory Ryan FrankLight Board Operator Benjamin Polsen

PROPERTIESProperties Master Tim JonesProperties Shop Assistants Andrea Moore, Pam WeinerProperties Construction Crew Sarah Nowak, Phi Truong, Collin Baker,

Alex Leidy, Hannah Marsh, EmilyVoelker, Hillary Templeton, AmandaOgorzalek, Daniel Riker, Erica Philpot

PAINTSScenic Charge Artist Ann ChismarPaint Crew Pallas Bane, Jane Chan, Jocelyn Daniels,

Daniel Dobrosielski, Alexis Fortiz,Clare Jackson, Gracie Jones, Matt Strote

PRODUCTION STAFFPROGRAM

Oashisu (excerpt)Choreographers: Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig in collaboration with members ofPEARSONWIDRIG Dance TheatreCostume Designer: Tzveta KassabovaOriginal Music: James Nyoraku SchleferVideo Design: Patrik WidrigCreators and Performers: Graham Brown, Tzveta Kassabova, Stephanie Miracle,Patrik Widrig

Oashisu is what happened when reuniting with each other after a rough year, when allof us were in need of a vacation from ourselves and ready to connect to a place as freeof habit as possible. The Japanese concepts of “ma” (a creative space in which theessence of artistic relationships are made tangible) and “kansha” (simultaneousgratitude and appreciation) provided the framework for this work of continualtectonic shifts, seismic surprises and deep calm.

The creation of Oashisu was made possible by the generous support of the AmericanMusic Center Live Music for Dance Program, the O’Donnell-Green Music andDance Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Friends ofPWDT and the University of Maryland College Park.

Movement Poetry Project, Part IIIChoreographer: Adriane FangCollaborators: Claudia Rosales and Armando BatistaCostume Designer: Kelsey HuntPerformers: Allison Bobby, Unissa Cruse-Ferguson, Melanie Francer, Madeline Fuller,Jessica Hughes, Sadie Koeppel, Diana Lopez, Anna Lynch, Sadie Leigh Rothman,Erin Rusonis, Tanya Stephens

Different EdensChoreographer: Tere O’ConnorRehearsal Director: Adriane FangCostume Designer: Collin RanneyMusic Collage: Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm, Dirty Projectors,Lamb Arrangement by Tere O’ConnorPerformers: Ana Patricia Farfán, Chelsea Freeman, Adrian Galvin, Jessie Laurita-Spanglet, Patricia Mullaney-Loss, Candace Scarborough, Connor Voss, Rachel JordanWolfe; Understudies: Tiana Joseé Fernandez, Stephanie Miracle and GabriellaMeiterman-Rodriguez

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Graham Brown is a second-year MFA candidate in dance, who spent the2000s working independently and directing the improvisational performancecompany Movement Forum. His work has been performed throughout the USA,having received choreographic commissions from the Sugar Space in SLC, andthe Dance Exchange here in DC, among others. In February he will be presentingan independent show of his own work in the Dance Theatre here at UMD. Brownhas performed with Nicholas Leichter Dance, Willi Dornier’s Bodies in Urban SpacesProject, Tzveta Kassabova, Stephen Koester and others.

David Dorfman, guest choreographer, is Artistic Director/David Dorfman Dancesince 1985; Connecticut College/Dance Department Chair since 2004; fellowshipsfrom Guggenheim, NEA; Martha Hill Mid-Career Award; a “Bessie”/The FamilyProject; a “Barrymore”/Green Violin (musical); DDD: worldwide touring andunderground at Clarice Smith, American Dance Festival, Brooklyn Academy ofMusic’s Next Wave Festival, Poland, Russia …, Disavowal at Duke, Florida DanceFestival …, Prophets of Funk touring nationally, live w/The Family Stone at LincolnCenter out of doors and American Dance Institute in Rockville, Maryland; Live SaxActs with Dan Froot at Clarice Smith and toured internationally including recently toZimbabwe. New work inspired by Patti Smith just begun!

Catherine Eliot, guest lighting designer, began designing lights for dance in 1989.Her work has been seen locally, in New York and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Adriane Fang, dance Artist-in-Residence, graduated with honors with a doublemajor in Dance and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Pointin 1994 and received her MFA in Dance from George Mason University in 2009.She was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 1996-2006, receiving a NewYork Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) in 2007, and has worked with severaladditional choreographers including Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Wally Cardona andClare Byrne. Currently an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland, she wason faculty at George Mason University from 2006-2009 and at the Doug Varone andDancers Summer Workshops from 2000-2007.

Kelsey Hunt is a first-year MFA candidate in costume design. Outside creditsinclude six seasons as resident designer at Triad Stage in North Carolina, costumeinternship at Glimmerglass Opera House and co-founder of Hand in The FireTheater Company.

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PRODUCTION STAFF

SCENE SHOPTechnical Director Mark RapachAssistant Technical Director Jonathon ShimonScene Shop Supervisor Steven WorkmanOverhire Set Construction Crew Jeff DorfmanSet Construction Crew Tommy Rothert, Seth Greenberg,

Alex Miletich, David Phelps, AudreyGoldstein, Lauren Joy, Ariel Myren

SOUNDAudio Shop Manager James O’ConnellAudio Coordinator Collin WarrenSound Board Operator David Samuel

RUN CREWStage Operations Manager Bill BrandweinRun Crew David Todd, Maddie Trower,

Adriyah Young

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Tere O’Connor, guest choreographer, has been making dances since 1982. Hiscompany Tere O’Connor Dance has performed throughout the United Sates, Europe,South America and Canada. He has created numerous commissioned works for dancecompanies around the world, among these a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov anda ballet for the Lyons Opera Ballet. He is 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller fellowand the recipient of numerous grants from many funding organizations, includinga 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor at University of Illinois. He teachesfrequently both nationally and internationally and is an active participant in theNew York dance community.

PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER under the artistic direction of SaraPearson and Patrik Widrig, has gained an international following for their concertstage choreography, site-specific dance installations, community performanceprojects, and choreographic and teaching residencies. Their work (“Impressive.Virtuosic. Amazing. Imagistically rich.” The New York Times) has been presented attheaters and festivals throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia and NewZealand and has been supported by many national and international fundinginstitutions. These “dare-devils of the heart” (Dance Magazine) have been TDPSAssociate Professors of Technique and Choreography since 2009. Their 2011-12engagements include residencies in China, Chile, Switzerland and India.www.pearsonwidrig.org.

Collin Ranney is a second-year MFA candidate in costume design who wasrecently on the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) 2011 PragueQuadrennial USA Student Exhibit Committee, where he collaborated to design andcurate the exhibition for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. He has worked and assistedthroughout Washington DC at such theatres as Signature Theatre, Woolly MammothTheatre Company, Adventure Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Folger Theatre, StudioTheatre, The Kennedy Center and The Shakespeare Theatre. Portfolio available atwww.collinranneydesign.com.

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DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DESIGNER BIOGRAPHIES

Paul D. Jackson, instructor of production and lighting design, has been TechnicalDirector of the School of Theater Dance Performance Studies at UMD since 1980.He has also designed for many regional dance companies. A festival specialist, Jacksonhas been the Production Manager for the National American College Dance Festivalsince 1994, and has been Production Manager for three regional ACDFA festivals.He received a BFA in dance performance from the University of Utah, and an MA indance production at the Ohio State University. He remained active as a dancer throughthe mid ’90s, performing in works by Meriam Rosen, Alvin Mayes, Anne Warren,Larry Warren and Robert Ellis Dunn.

JD Madsen is a third-year MFA candidate in scenic design. University of MarylandCollege Park Design Credits: Enchanted April, Minotaur, A Child Shall Lead Them:The Making of the Night of the Hunter. Regional Theatre Design Credits: Songs fora NewWorld, 1776, Big River, Suessical, Wizard of Oz, Forever Plaid. Educational TheatreDesign Credits: Beidermann and the Firebugs, Cabaret, The Country Wife, Really Rosie,The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Awards and Recognition:Lindquist Scholar 2007, WSU Outstanding Honors 2007, KCACTF Region VIIIFinalist and Honors 2005, 2006, 2007, Richards/Reed Memorial Scholar 2005.

Alvin Mayes, instructor of dance technique and choreography, has been a leadingdancer, choreographer, collaborator and teacher in the DC area since 1978. He andKaren Bernstein performed as the popular modern dance duo “Karen & Alvin”dancing repertory from the likes of Doug Varone, Sharon Wyrrick, Meriam Rosen,Deborah Riley and Eric Hampton. His choreography has been selected in a numberof adjudicated concerts including the Maryland-National Capital Parks and PlanningCommission Choreographers’ Showcase, Dance Bethesda and the American CollegeDance Festival. Mayes was recognized in 2010 by the Philip Merrill PresidentialScholars Program; in 2008 he was an Edgeworks Dance Ensemble “Men of Honor”recipient for leadership and involvement in the Greater Washington Metrocommunity; and in 2007 he won the “Metro DC Dance Award for OutstandingAchievement in Dance Education.” He has adjudicated the American College DanceFestival, East Central Region at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, won the2003 “Distinguished Scholar - Teacher” Award from the Center for TeachingExcellence here at the University of Maryland and in 1996 the “Arts AchievementAward” presented by Wayne State University. Mayes is thrilled to accept the 2011Pola Nirenska Award to honor those who have made outstanding contributions todance, administered by the Washington Performing Arts Society.

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Erin Crawley-Woods is a first-year MFA candidate in dance. From 2007-2011she was a company member, teacher and Outreach Program Director for KeshetDance Company, Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has performed in the U.S. andabroad with Sara Rudner, Leslie Satin, Russell Dumas, Anneke Hansen and NancyMeehan. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Unissa Cruse-Ferguson is a sophomore dance and family science double major.She has received training from Towson University’s Children’s Dance Division, RageBox Contemporary Dance Center, Peabody Preparatory and Mercy High School’sDance Troupe.

Ana Patricia Farfán is a first-year MFA candidate in dance and literature. Shehas received training in classic and modern dance with Goulanara Kalmourzina andClaudia Lavista. Farfán has showcased her choreography and performance in Teatrode la Danza and Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico. She has been the directorof the Orkesis dance group, and the editor of the dance research magazine Centrífuga.She has been recognized by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes with a scholarshipaward for her magazine, and currently she is a Fulbright grantee at MFA program.

Tiana Joseé Fernandez is a sophomore dance and journalism double major.She has received training in multiple styles of modern, jazz, African and ballet withmany great teachers: Stephanie Powell, Candice Kemp-Smothers, Amanda Fair andElana Anderson. She has performed in the Baltimore-based modern/contemporarycompany, The Campbell Dance Experience, directed by Algernon Campbell. She isa member of Dynamic dance team, one of College Park’s hip-hop dance teams.

Chelsea Freeman is a junior dance major on a pre-physical therapy track. Dancetraining in New York at Ballet Hispanico and The Ailey School. Previous performancesinclude Vaudevival: Old is the new New (Gildenhorn Recital Hall, 2011) andKre, Kre, Kre (Yes, Yes, Yes) (Kay Theatre, 2010).

Melanie Francer is a freshman dance major with an intended double major incommunications. She received her formative training from Heidi Miller’s Schoolof Dance, where she performed nationally with the Senior Dance Company.Boston’s Urbanity Dance Company has recognized Francer in a college essayscholarship contest.

Madeline Fuller is a junior dance and communications double major. She hasreceived training in a wide variety of dance styles at Acton-Boxborough DanceCenter and UMD. Fuller has showcased her choreography with Ballet Company Mand performed in A Fear Not of One (Spring 2011 MDE).

ABOUT THE ARTISTSABOUT THE ARTISTS

Nava Behnam is a junior dance and studio art double major. She has studiedat American Dance Institute and Maryland Youth Ballet. In previous seasons sheperformed in Open Interstice, Give or Take and a reconstruction of Erika Thimey’swork, A Fear Not of One But of Many. This semester, she performed in NathanAndary’s graduate thesis concert, Going Viral. In spring 2011 she was awarded theDorothy Madden Dance Scholarship.

Raha Behnam is graduating this December with a double degree in dance andanthropology. At UMD, she has had the pleasure of working with Sharon Mansur,Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig, Nathan Andary, Emily Oleson and Graham Brown.Behnam and co-choreographer, Rachel Wolfe, presented their work, Gravity,at American College Dance Festival this past spring.

Allison Bobby is a junior studying biology. She has received training in ballet,modern, jazz and tap from County Dance Conservatory. She has been a member ofPieces dance company since 2008 and performed with them in The New PragueDance Festival 2011 and Chesapeake Pride 2011. She also danced with The DanceCooperative in Dance-a-lorus 2010 and was a member of the repertory dancecompany of Southern Senior High School in 2009.

Andrew Brown is a sophomore anthropology major. Kay Theatre: Florencia en elAmazonas (followspot operator), Il Barbiere di Seviglia/Entführung aus dem Serail(light board operator).

Roberta Capobianco is a senior dance major at UMD and the president of theStudent Dance Association. Since coming to the University of Maryland, she has hadthe pleasure of working under various choreographers including David Dorfman,Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, Alvin Mayes, Sharon Mansur, Jen McGinn, AngelaFoster, Graham Brown and Tzveta Kassabova. She has recently been seen performingat various venues with the Phunktions Hip Hop Dance Company. Capobianco’schoreography was shown in the 2011 Spring Maryland Dance Ensemble.

Ellen Clark is a freshman dance and biology double major, specializing inphysiology and neurobiology. Clark has trained in modern, improvisation, ballet andjazz with instructors from Connecticut Dance and the 2009 Goucher CollegeSummer Arts Institute.

Melanie Clement is a dance and pre-med double major. She has received trainingin ballet, modern, tap and jazz at Fiorello H. LaGuardia for Music & Art andPerforming Arts in New York City. This is her first performance at the Universityof Maryland.

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Commission for the Arts and the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation, amongothers. Mansur has performed in dances by BodyCartography Project, David Dorfman,David Roussève and Sara Rudner, and works with numerous Washington DCarea artists.

Gabriella Meiterman-Rodriguez is a sophomore dance and kinesiologydouble major. She has received training from the Howell High School PerformingArts Center. She will be performing in the MFA Thesis Concert this March forFlorian Rouiller’s Profondeur Inconnue. This is her first performance at UMD.

Stephanie Miracle is a first-year MFA candidate in dance. She relocated to DCfrom New York City where she had the privilege of dancing for Deganit Shemy,Shannon Gillen, Nicole Wolcott, Laura Peterson, David Dorfman, Joseph Poulsonand Susan Marshall. Since 2010 Miracle has been an adjunct artist with theDance Exchange.

Patricia Mullaney-Loss is a junior dance, and government and politics, doublemajor, also pursuing a Master’s in public policy. At the University of Maryland,she has had the wonderful opportunity to perform in works by Erica Thimey,Nathan Andary and Sharon Mansur. She is a recipient of the Creative andPerforming Arts Scholarship.

Sydney Pearson is a junior dance major. She has performed in Civicus/Refugee,Give or Take and North End. She has studied at the Washington School of Ballet,Kansas City Ballet and the American Academy of Ballet New York. She has studiedwith renowned teachers such as Arthur Mitchell, Fabian Barnes, Septime Webre,Troy Brown and Allain Lupien.

Sadie Leigh Rothman is a senior dance major. She began her dance trainingat the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland, where she studiedperformance, choreography and leadership in dance. She has performed in suchworks as Kre, Kre, Kre (choreographed by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig), ThankYou (choreographed by Jen McGinn) and Standard Deviation (choreographed byAmber Jean Tietgens) at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as well as inher own work, Please Hold, as part of the Spring 2011 Maryland Dance Ensemble.She has choreographed and performed in Hugo Ball: A Super Spectacular DadaAdventure with Pointless Theater Company as part of the Capital Fringe Festivaland Fall Fringe in 2011. She received the Nancy H. Law Department of DanceScholarship in 2010.

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Adrian Galvin is a dance and studio art double major. He has been fire dancingfor four years and has studied with Cirque Du Soleil’s Srikanta Barefoot, the firedance soloist from ZAIA. Galvin’s visual artwork has shown at the Kennedy Center,Dance Place and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York.

Katharine Gundlach is a sophomore dance and dietetics double major. This isher first performance as a part of Maryland Dance Ensemble.

Jessica Hughes is a senior hearing and speech sciences and dance double major.Productions: The Coronation of a Walrus King, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange:A Matter of Origins, Orchesis Dance Company, Jazz Allegheny Dance Ensemble.Dance/Gymnastics teacher at The Little Gym of Silver Spring, and English teacherin Italy, using TEFL techniques through dance and drama.

Tzveta Kassabova, guest costume designer and performer, holds three Master’sdegrees and is a choreographer, costume designer and installation artist. She hascreated roles for Ed Tyler, Shua Group, David Dorfman Dance and PWDT (since2004). She received a Metro DC Dance Award, a Prince George’s Arts Council grantand the Maryland State Arts Council award.

Jessie Laurita-Spanglet is a first-year MFA candidate in dance. She receivedher undergraduate degree in dance from the University of North Carolina School ofthe Arts. Prior to starting at UMD, she was working with The Zen Monkey Project,and teaching pilates in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Diana Lopez is a senior dance and family science double major. She hasperformed and choreographed for New Dances and her most recent work (re)act wasshowcased in Maryland Dance Ensemble (2011). Her most recent departmentperformance was in Valerie Durham’s Opus 80.

Anna Lynch is a junior theatre performance major. Banneker-Key Scholarship.Kay Theatre: Enchanted April (wardrobe crew). Kogod Theatre: Dirty Story (assistantstage manager). Fresh Produce: The Many Women of Troy (u/s Polyxena), Bakeshop(Lydia). Weekday Players: Soundproof (director). Odd Act Theatre Group: How theMoney Goes (Capital Fringe 2010, One),Weirwolf (Pierre/Judge 1),Wild Play(Ontario Fringe 2011, Clover).

Sharon Mansur, Assistant Professor in Dance, is originally from Boston, and isan experimental multi-media dance artist. Her choreographic and improvisationalcollaboratively based projects have been presented throughout the U.S. andinternationally in traditional, alternative and site-specific venues, with supportfrom the John F. Kennedy Center, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Virginia

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Boris Willis, guest performer, is Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves andan Assistant Professor of Dance and Computer Game Design at George MasonUniversity. He has performed with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, Streb, Jacob’sPillow’s Men Dancers and several DC choreographers. He has created video artfor Sharon Mansur and his blog danceaday.com. Willis has an MFA in Danceand Technology from Ohio State, a BFA in Dance from GMU and a Universityof North Carolina School of the Arts Diploma in dance. He is the recipient ofthe Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission and a Virginia Commission forthe Arts Fellowship.

Rachel Jordan Wolfe is a senior dance major. In the past she has worked withchoreographers Sharon Mansur, Tzveta Kassabova, Jen McGinn and Lauren Withhartas a dancer in a range of performance projects. When she is not performing, Wolfeenjoys choreographing. Her works Clementine and Gravity were presented atMaryland Dance Ensemble performances in spring 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Kayla Wright is a junior theatre major with a focus in Stage Management. KayTheatre: RENT (assistant stage manager), Florencia en el Amazonas (assistant stagemanager), Enchanted April (sound board operator). Kogod Theatre: The Effect ofGamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (stage manager), Welcome Home, JennySutter (assistant stage manager). Outside productions: Booty Candy (deck crew).

Georgia Yang is a senior dance and psychology double major, with a minor ininternational development. She received her dance training with the MetropolitanBallet Theater and Joy of Motion. Previously she performed in Diedre Dawkins’sMFA thesis concert and alight dance theater’s sneak preview of Truth Be Told. Shehas choreographed for Project Dance New York City and was on the volunteer teamfor Project Dance Washington D.C. She hopes to pursue a career in teaching aftershe graduates.

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Erin Rusonis is a sophomore dance major. She has received training in modern andballet with Jen Graham, Adriane Fang and Julia Smith. This is her first time performing aspart of Fall Maryland Dance Ensemble.

Candace Scarborough is a senior dance major. She has performed in dancesby guest artist Keith Thompson, Erika Thimey and faculty members Sara Pearsonand Patrik Widrig. She will be performing in the MFA Thesis Concert this Marchfor Florian Rouiller’s Profondeur Inconnue. She is also a recipient of the Creative andPerforming Arts Scholarship.

James Nyoraku Schlefer, guest musician, is a leading performer and teacherof shakuhachi in New York City and is an active composer. He has appeared at CarnegieHall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center and Tanglewood; has toured internationallyin Europe, Asia and South America; and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.He received the Dai-Shi-Han (Grand Master’s Certificate) in 2001. He holds a Master’sdegree in music from Queens College. He is on the faculty of Columbia Universityand CUNY and is the Japanese Music Curator for the Arts at Tenri in New York City,presenting concerts of traditional and contemporary music for Japanese instruments.www.nyoraku.com.

Will Voorhies is a senior theatre production major. Recent productions include:RENT (assistant lighting designer), Am I Black Enough, Yet? (stage manager), 2010 SharedGrad Concert (assistant stage manager). Capital Fringe Festival productions includeGenesis (best drama of 2010) and Flyboy.

Connor Voss is a junior dance and queer studies double major. Voss has performedmodern dance work in the Fall Maryland Dance Ensemble and with the A.O.Movement Collective.

Morgan Wallace has been dancing since the age of three studying modern,jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, African and hip-hop. She currently attends the Universityof Maryland College Park where she is a CAPA scholar, and currently a dancer for theUniversity of Maryland Dance Team, Dynamic Hip Hop Dance team. Prior to attendingUMD, Wallace danced in the Lady Legends of Hip Hop showcase, Garden State DanceFestival, 76er’s Jr. Dance Team, and has choreographed and led her high school team tofour State and three National Dance Competition Championships.

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ADJUNCT FACULTYSusan Chiang Costume ConstructionAnn Chismar Scenic PaintingAdrienne Clancy ChoreographyAngella Foster Freshman ConnectionCary Gillett Stage ManagementErin Glasspatrick Theatre CraftsmanshipKyle Kweder Lighting TechnologyFrank Labovitz Costume DesignRaye Leith Figure DrawingKris Messer Theatre and Performance StudiesKorey Rothman Theatre HistoryJulia Smith Ballet

STAFFStephanie Bergwall Executive Administrative AssistantSue Blandford Program Management SpecialistCary Gillett Theatre Production CoordinatorErin Glasspatrick Dance Production CoordinatorSandra Jackson Director of Business OperationsIsiah Johnson AccompanistBob Novak AccompanistMarguerita Phelps Coordinator of Student ServicesCamilla Schlegel Program Management Specialist

GRADUATE ASSISTANTS AND FELLOWSNathan Andary, Drew Barker, Armando Batista, Teresa Bayer, Mike Boynton,Graham Brown, Tracey Chessum, Andrew Cissna, Douglas Clarke, Caroline Clay,Andrew Cohen, Erin Crawley-Woods, Rebecca DeLapp, Dave Demke, Robert Denton,Ashley Duncan Derr, Adriana Diaz, Shannon Dooling, Andrew Dorman, ValerieDurham, Jared Ewonus, Elisabeth Fallica, Ana Patricia Farfán, Xuejuan Feng, DavidGregory, Paige Hathaway, James Hesla, Nicholas Horan, Kelsey Hunt, Rob Jansen,Andrew Kaufman, Jessica Krenek, Jessica Laurita-Spanglet, Laree Lentz, JD Madsen,Stephanie Miracle, Adam Nixon, Emily Oleson, Kwame Opare, Aryna Petrashenko,Collin Ranney, Jedidiah Roe, Claudia Rosales, Florian Rouiller, AnnMarie Saunders,Chelsey Schuller, Adam Sheaffer, Matthew Shifflett, Kathleen Spanos, Erin BoneSteele, Natalie Tenner, Ruthmarie Tenorio, LaRonika Thomas, Robert Thompson,Sara Thompson, Aaron Tobiason, Sarah Tundermann, Matthew Wilson andAnupama Yadav.

SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE,AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIESFACULTY AND STAFF

Director Daniel MacLean Wagner

FACULTYIzumi Ashizawa Movement and ActingKaren Bradley History, Theory and EducationFaedra Carpenter Theatre History and DiversityDaniel Conway Scene DesignWalter Dallas Acting, Playwriting, and DirectingAdriane Fang Artist in Residence, DanceLeslie Felbain Movement for Actors and ActingMitchell Hébert Acting and DirectingFranklin J. Hildy History and TheoryHelen Q. Huang Costume Design and HistoryPaul Jackson Production and Lighting DesignMisha Kachman Costume and Scene DesignBrian MacDevitt Lighting DesignSharon Mansur Improvisation and KinesiologyAlvin Mayes Technique, Partnering

and ChoreographyLaurie Frederik Meer Performance StudiesHeather S. Nathans History and TheorySara Pearson Technique and ChoreographyMiriam Phillips Global Perspectives, Movement Analysis

and FlamencoScot Reese Directing, Black Theatre, and

Musical TheatreLeigh Smiley Voice for the Actor and Acting,

Associate Director of TheatreAshley Smith Voice for the Actor and ActingDaniel MacLean Wagner Lighting Design, Director of the SchoolAnne Warren Movement Analysis and Creative

Process, Associate Director of DancePatrik Widrig Technique and Choreography

Patti P. Gillespie Professor EmeritaRoger Meersman Professor EmeritusWilliam V. Patterson Associate Professor EmeritusMeriam Rosen Professor EmeritaAlcine Wiltz Professor Emeritus

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Academy of Drama in Beijing to have the 11th edition of the book he has co-authoredfor many years with the late Oscar G. Brockett, History of the Theatre, translated intoChinese — it is already widely used there in English. For the Central Academy hegave a public lecture on “Lessons from the Study of Historic Theatres.” In Junehe convened the International Federation for Theatre Research working group onTheatre Architecture at the International Stage Design and Theatre ArchitectureQuadrennial in Prague, Czech Republic, where he is also setting up a cooperativeventure with the National Arts and Theatre Institute to bring the historic theatres ofcentral Europe into theatre-finder. In August he traveled to Japan to study sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Noh theatre architecture along with nineteenth-centuryKabuki theatres. He presented a paper on “Building the indoor playhouse atShakespeare’s Globe, London” for the International Federation for Theatre Researchand is delighted to report that he got to operate a Bunraku puppet.

Brian MacDevitt (Associate Professor, Lighting Design) designed the lightingfor Book of Mormon on Broadway and received a TONY award for best lighting.He designed lights for the new Broadway play Mountaintop starring Samuel Jacksonand Angela Bassett, and is presently designing lights for Enchanted Island at the MET,which premieres New Year’s Eve. Next semester he is designing lights for the revivalof Death of a Salesman directed by Mike Nichols.

Sharon Mansur (Assistant Professor, Dance) collaborated with UMD Architectureprofessor Ronit Eisenbach on a performance/installation in June 2011 at Dance Placein Washington DC in conjunction with “Places in Space” curated by Next ReflexDance Collective. They will be attending an artist residency at the Virginia Centerfor the Creative Arts to continue their collaboration, developing a site-specific projectcommissioned by the Reston Community Center for fall 2012.

Alvin Mayes (Instructor, Choreography and Partnering) is singing the role of Tonyin the “Mini-Musical on the Move” production of West Side Story through November.Mayes won a silver medal in the 2011 Maccabi Games for his choreography foryouth dancers at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. Also he wasselected for the 2011 Pola Nirenska Award for outstanding contributions to dance.

Heather S. Nathans (Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies) received a JohnS. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, an American Society for Theatre ResearchFellowship and an Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for research on her newbook, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on theAntebellum American Stage.

Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig (Associate Professors of Dance, ArtisticDirectors of PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER) in September opened the2011-12 season at Dance Place in Washington DC. In January, they will travel to

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FACULTY

Walter Dallas (Senior Artist-in-Residence), this summer, with generous supportfrom the International Initiatives Committee, led an intense academic, culturaland heritage excursion to Accra, Ghana, called The Team Ghana Project, 2011.Accompanying Dr. Dallas on this amazing six-day experience was theatre professorScot Reese, as well as MFA in Performance students Caroline Clay and David Demke,who both conducted voice workshops at the National Theatre of Ghana.

Leslie Felbain (Associate Professor, Acting, Movement, Theatrical Styles,F.M. Alexander Technique) presented a workshop addressing PTSD using theF.M. Alexander Technique and Storytelling with the Joint Services Public HealthConference in Hampton, Virginia. Using cast members from UMD’s 2010 production,Felbain directed staged readings of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter at the Veteran’sAdministration Hospital Center in Washington DC and Bethesda Naval/Walter ReedHealth Center. Felbain received a Creative and Performing Arts Award from theUniversity of Maryland Graduate School to create a piece entitled Memories. Felbainalso received a Seed Grant from the University of Maryland and the SmithsonianInstitution to create the piece American Voices, which was performed at the NationalPortrait Gallery.

Angella Foster (Adjunct Faculty) was recently awarded funding from the city ofGreenbelt and the Greenbelt Community Foundation to support the developmentof a site-specific work at the Greenbelt Museum home in honor of the city’s 75thanniversary celebration next year. In addition, alight dance theater, under thedirection of Foster, will be implementing an accompanying women’s history monthperforming arts program at nearby Springhill Lake Elementary.

Mitchell Hébert (Professor, Acting/Directing) went to Beijing, China, inMay/June with a small group of UMD faculty and students to begin pre-productionwork on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a co-production with the National Academy ofChinese Theatre Arts (NACTA). Hébert will co-direct along with Professor Yu Fanlinof NACTA. In July and August he appeared in the hit remount of Clybourne Park atWoolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC. In October/November he will be seenas “Quentin” in Arthur Miller’s After the Fall at Theatre J in DC.

Franklin J. Hildy (Professor, Theatre History, Director of MA/PhD Programin Theatre and Performance Studies) continued his work on theatre-finder.org, aWeb-based guide to the historic theatres of the world that he developed as a Fellow ofthe Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities over the last two years. InMay he visited China, where he has started to set up a cooperative research programwith the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts to bring the historic theatres ofChina into the theatre-finder project. He is also developing a project with the Central

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Teresa Anne Virginia Bayer (MFA Performance) won honorable mentionfor Best Lyrics (Series C) for the musical Isn’t It Wonderful premiering this past Junein the West Village Musical Theatre Festival. She also worked as the Marketing &Publicity Director for Princeton Summer Theater’s 43rd anniversary season.

Graham Brown (MFA Dance) over the summer taught and performed withPEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER at Connecticut College and Queen’sCollege and performed at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine. With theDance Exchange he taught local advanced level improvisation and technique classes aswell as premiered a new work, The Better Half, as part of the DC Fringe Festival wherehe also performed in a new work by Stephanie Miracle. Independently he taught a two-week dance workshop at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, teaching advancedtechnique and creative process. He also began work on a new piece that is premieringin this semester’s UMD Maryland Dance Ensemble concert, December 2-3.

Andrew R. Cissna (MFA Design, Lighting) served as the Lighting Coordinatorfor the Spoleto Festival USA this summer. He also was the lighting designer forBirds of a Feather at HUB Theatre NOVA and taught lighting for the AtlasPerforming Arts Center’s apprentice training program.

Douglas Clarke (MFA Design, Scenic) is currently working on RENT, as wellas assisting Daniel Conway on Next Fall at Round House Theatre and Merry Wives ofWindsor at Shakespeare Theatre. He is also designing the set for Alexander and theTerrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at Adventure Theatre.

Dave Demke (MFA Performance) traveled to Ghana at the end of May, as part ofan International Initiatives project. While there he and fellow MFAP cohort CarolineClay taught workshops at the National Theatre of Ghana and at the Hillside Schoolin Accra. Demke then traveled to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, where herehearsed and performed the role of Sleeper in Outcast Cafe Theatrix’s productionof The Dick and the Rose, a tragic, American gothic, fool’s musical about love andprocreation. He played this role at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. This fallDemke will be the Producing Director of the MFA in Performance Solo Showcase.

Shannon Dooling (MFA Dance) spent her summer fostering the creativityof pre-schoolers, children and adults as the Summer Camp Manager at New ChicagoDance Studio in Greenbelt, Maryland, and presented a work in the Philly FringeFestival in early September.

Rob Jansen (MFA Performance) performed in the premiere of The MenagerieVariations (a new play based on different versions of The Glass Menagerie byTennessee Williams) at Arena Stage. He also played Kilroy in the staged reading

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Chile for a choreographic and performing residency, and next July/August Pearsonand Widrig will choreograph a new work for Tanz Plan Ost in Switzerland.

Scot Reese (Professor, Musical Theatre, Black Theatre, Performance) recentlyinterviewed company members of the National Tour of Wicked for the John F.Kennedy Center’s Explore the Arts Series. He also returned from an Artistic Initiativeprogram conducted in Accra, Ghana.

Leigh Wilson Smiley (Associate Professor, Voice and Acting/Director of theMFA in Performance/Associate Director Theatre) served as Voice Director for TwelfthNight at Pig Iron Theatre in Philadelphia in August and September. She will again beDialect/Voice & Text Director for A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre in 2011. Shecontinues to build her Visual Accent & Dialect Archive (http://mith.umd.edu/vada/)which is the first audio and visual resource for dialects and accents on the Web andwas created in collaboration with the Maryland Institute for Technology in theHumanities (MITH). Professor Smiley, with the graduate students of the MFA inPerformance, is devising a new performance around the intersections of Darwin’stheories of evolution and the beliefs surrounding creationism. This production,called Sandwalk, will premiere in April 2012.

Ashley Smith (Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting) is currently serving asDialect Director for Baltimore Center Stage’s production of The Rivals. In earlySeptember he performed in two staged readings in the Page-to-Stage Festival atThe Kennedy Center. This winter he will play Conrade in Much Ado About Nothingat Shakespeare Theatre Company.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Elizabeth Forte Alman (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies),continuing her work as an Independent Voice and Speech Consultant, recently servedas the on-camera talent for an educational film produced by the Office of LanguageServices at the U.S. Department of State.

Nathan Andary, CMA (MFA Candidate in Dance) led a creative processworkshop for 15 professional dance artists this summer in New England andpresented his research on social constructs stemming from organic systems and thepursuit of an organic origin of movement in Going Viral this past October. InSeptember, he performed in Sarajevo’s International Dance Festival, a year-longcollaboration involving 10 artists from multiple countries using social media, YouTubeand email exploring how fractured communities reconnect.

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Anu Yadav (MFA Performance) performed at the dedication week festivitiesof the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC. This summer sheattended the first Dramatists Guild Conference at George Mason University,Black Women Playwrights Workshop on Cyber Narratives, and presented at the35th anniversary festival and convening of the national arts and social changeorganization Alternate ROOTS.

ALUMNI

Madeline Bell (BA Theatre, 2006) recently took the position as ProgrammingManager at Flynn Center in Burlington, Vermont.

Dominic D’Andrea (BA Theatre, 2003) curated and will direct for the 5th AnnualNew York One-Minute Play Festival, in partnership with Primary Stages EinhornSchool of Performing Arts. Plays include works by emerging artists as well as establishedwriters such as Rajiv Joseph, Donald Margulies, Neil LaBute and David Henry Hwang.

Justin Fair (BA Theatre, 2010) performed in Alan Sharpe’s Damage Control atWarehouse Theatre in August 2011.

James Gardiner (BA Theatre, 2006) was a featured singer for a special show atSignature Theatre in July, Let Me Sing & I’m Happy: The Music of Irving Berlin.

Jen Graham (BA Dance, 2005) was featured in the Carroll County Times for herdance studio, which she is moving from Howard County to Carroll County. To readthe article: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/entertainment/project-c-pirouettes-into-new-chapter/article_b98d528a-ce99-11e0-9f02-001cc4c002e0.html.

Vannia Ibarguen (MFA Dance, 2009) recently published the book Through theDistance: Creating virtual extensions in Dance: How technology and systems theory canbe used in the choreography process and performance.

Jeanne Marie Iorio (BA Dance, 1994) is currently a professor at University ofHawaii. She continued her dance studies at Harvard and Columbia, combiningarts and education. Her current research is viewing child-adult conversations asaesthetic experiences.

Farah Lawal (BA Theatre, 2008) recently performed poetry with members ofThe Saarjie Project at the artist reception Lush! An Exhibition of Collage Art andPhotographs at Busboys & Poets.

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of Camino Real as part of Georgetown University’s Tennessee Williams CentennialFestival. He was the sole artist from the United States invited to take part in thetwo-week Rhythm and Art Workshop led by master percussionist Misirli Ahmet onthe island of Gökçeada in Turkey.

Casey Kaleba (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies) arranged fightsfor Round House Theatre’s production of Fahrenheit 451, and will stage the violencefor the Folger Theatre’s upcoming production of Othello. This summer he worked withUMD Grads Jennifer Ring (BA 2005) and Abby (Gustafson) Hawk (BA 2004) at theNew Brunswick Theatre Festival’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Adam Nixon (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies) recently madethe second round of the Sundance Screenwriting Institute’s 2012 Screenwritingcontest; 12 winners will be announced in December. This past year he also receivedscreenwriting awards for his script Aspirin for the Masses from the 2011 Los AngelesFilm and Script Festival, and the 2011 Mountain Film Festival, and for directing hisdocumentary short The New Burlesque from the 2011 Mountain Film Festival.

Erin Bone Steele (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies) directedMacbeth for the Appalachian Shakespeare Project at Concord University this pastsummer, and will be directing Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for the ChesapeakeShakespeare Company next spring. Her book chapter, “Killing a Husband: AliceArden and Her Accomplices on the Early Modern Stage,” co-authored with MarishaCaswell of Queen’s University (Ontario), was published in 2011 in the anthologyRepresentations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television.

LaRonika Thomas (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies) spentthe summer working as the Associate Producer for Source Festival and the FestivalsDirector for Active Cultures. She serves as the Vice President of Regional Activity forLMDA, and attended the annual conference in Denver. She had an essay published inLMDA’s Teaching Dramaturgy: The UCaucus Sourcebook, Vol. 4, and she just found outthat her play, J-Rots, is a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s HeidemanAward. She is in the process of joining the DAR.

Aaron Tobiason (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies) has beenselected as an Advisory Council Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early AmericanStudies, where he will spend the fall conducting dissertation research.

Matthew R. Wilson (PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies) isdirecting Machiavelli’s The Mandrake for Faction of Fools Theatre Company. Hisperformance in The Green Bird was recently named one of the year’s 12 bestperformances by Maryland Theatre Guide.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011 . 5PMElsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall

PHOTO BY STAN BAROUH

Orpheus Sings

UMD Symphony OrchestraJames Ross, music director

with members of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

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PRESENTSCHOOL NEWS

Sarah Levitt (BA Dance, 2007) and fellow Dance Exchange artist BenjaminWegman choreographed a new work /Hammock/, which was selected for the KennedyCenter’s Local Dance Commissioning Project. /Hammock/ premiered at the KennedyCenter’s Millennium Stage this fall with Levitt and Wegman directing and performing.

Jen Ring (BA Theatre, 2005) recently appeared in Mile Square Theatre’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream alongside fellow alum Casey Kaleba (MA Theatre 2004,PhD candidate) and Abigail Hawk [Abigail Gustafson (BA Theatre 2004), currentlyappearing in the TV series “Blue Bloods”].

Aaron Taylor (BA Theatre, 2006) directed The Laramie Project at Bethesda-ChevyChase High School in March 2011. The cast also performed excerpts at theDepartment of Justice for its annual LGBT Pride Month “Moving Equality Forward:The Power of Allies” event in the Great Hall of the RFK Main Justice Building.

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